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The development of an interactive environment that allows for a significant enhancement in interaction opportunities with information resources for a child is one of the primary tasks of the pre-school educational process organisation today. This study involved 50 establishments for children in Chelyabinsk (N = 1280: 230 children, 350 teachers, 700 parents). We used two techniques to collect data: a questionnaire for teachers on the use of Information Exchange in the educational process, their attitude towards ICTs, and the available resources (resources included technological aspects, such as infrastructure, equipment, and software, as well as educational aspects, such as further training and the availability of a qualified methodologist); and a conversation with children on their experience in using and operating digital devices for various tasks. The questions were divided into four groups that provided us with data on the following topics: the degree of inclusion of parents in the interaction (a triad of a child, a digital device, and a parent), the awareness of the child of the capacity and resources of ICTs, motivation and interests that can be realized through digital technologies, and self-reflection as the capacity of the child to predict and analyse their activities. The Hypothesis that the level of readiness for information exchange in subjects of the educational process can be increased through further training of pre-school teachers and the establishment of a single information space in a kindergarten group has been proven right. The findings the study proved such an influence and proposed directions for further studying.

The relevance of the research is due to the necessity of creating the pedagogical conditions for correction and development of speech in children having the general speech underdevelopment. For them, difficulties generating a coherent utterance are characteristic, which prevents a sufficient speech readiness for schooling forming in them as well as successful socialization. With regard to this, the paper is aimed at finding out the particularities of coherent monologic and dialogical speech in senior pre-school children having the general speech underdevelopment. The leading method to studying this problem is experimental studying, which allows viewing the particularities of coherent dialogical and monologic speech in preschoolers having the general speech underdevelopment in an integrated way. The paper describes particularities of coherent monologic and dialogical speech in pre-school children having the general underdevelopment depending on the level of formation. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data obtained has shown that pre-school children having the general speech underdevelopment have significant difficulty carrying on a dialogue and making up detailed utterances. Examples of various lexical and grammatical, logical and meaning-related mistakes of the children are given. The materials of the paper may be of use for specialists rendering the psychological and pedagogical support for children having speech disorders in the educational process.

The study area is to form research competences for Master's students in the process of mastering the educational programme. The aim of the study is to justify the model to form research competences and the mechanism for its implementation in the process of professionallypedagogical training. The research uses methods, such as content analysis of texts for professional standards such as Teacher & Specialist in education/Mentor. The method of determining the type of personality subjective relation with the environment, modeling a research University environment, and comparing Federal state educational standards for the educational level of undergraduate and graduate programs. The study was conducted at the Tyumen State University (Russia) in 2015-2017 in the framework of the Master's program in Pedagogy. The system of accompanying the research of the master students was introduced. Assessment of its effectiveness was carried out according to the master's theses defense reports. The conducted research allows us to present and describe the model for student research competences formation in the process of implementing master's programmes. Model components are the forming of a social request based on the order from the employer and the introduction of research results into practice, creating a research module to elementary-wise refining steps required for entry into the research activities, saturating all academic disciplines and practices with research content to include students in the completed research cycle, and immersing students in the academic university environment in order to enrich it with the forms of research activities. The conducted research has shown the effectiveness of the model for the formation of research competences. This model is implemented through the following mechanisms, such as individual support for students' research activities based on the type of subjective connection of the individual with the environment, work at the employer's request and immersion in the academic environment. Under these conditions, the inclusion of students in research raises the training quality of teacher's education. Our research has shown that the developed model of the research competencies formation is successful.

The research conducted deals with the problem of development of personal maturity in adopting parents. The objectives of the research are to describe the content foundation of the adopting parents' personal maturity represented by motivational and value-related, emotional, cognitive and activity-related components, to prove the influence of personal maturity of adopting parents on the efficiency of adoption parenting. Based on the analysis of theoretical and methodological standpoints and the empirical data obtained, the particularities of personal maturity of adopting parents are represented. The content foundation of adopting parents' personal maturity is considered. The study was conducted during the adaptation period of children entering the adopting family. The respondents were 40 adopting parents aged 30 to 57 and 35 adopted children aged 7-15. The results of the study have allowed revealing the key particularities of the adopting parents' personal maturity ensuring not only the efficiency of adoption parenting but also acting as a condition of preventing the social orphanage.

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We present a method for synthesis of optimal control with feedback of nonlinear systems with separated linear part via quadratic criteria. This method is based on a special method of successive approximations, which allows, under standard assumptions, to find optimal control within any finite time interval and to get the procedure of its construction. An example is provided for applying this method for synthesis of control of a system which is similar to Watt's centrifugal governor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses the issue of the development of autonomy in physical activity. Relationship between physical and knowledge-gaining activity is identified and substantiated which solves the problems of forming the need for autonomous physical exercising. Analysis of the results obtained show that the development of autonomy by means of shaping is a many-sided process. It includes the components not only of physical but also of knowledge-gaining activity that helps to acquire knowledge in the field of the autonomous performance of physical exercises and of leading a healthy lifestyle. Conscious performance of shaping exercises is associated with physical activity and the increased interest in autonomous performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]